163 examples of twinge in sentences
" She didn't mean anything but crossness when she said thisfor which probably a severe rheumatic twinge which just then passed through her shoulder was also partly to blame.
The blaze of joy on old Dorn's face gave Kurt a twinge of pain.
It gave Dorn both a twinge of shame and a thrill of pride.
cried Roundjacket, flourishing his ruler, and suddenly dropping it as a twinge shot through his shoulder.
The twinge soon spent its force, however; and then Mr. Roundjacket and Verty resumed their colloquyafter which, Verty rose and took his leave, smiling and laughing to himself, at times.
I had no twinge of compunction, for was this not fulfillment?
Physical Pain N. pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance^; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering &c 828; dolour, ache; aching &c v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris
(Here, notwithstanding the tumult of her feelings, a little twinge crossed Lady Bearwarden to learn how quickly Dick had consoled himself.)
It had been so when he was quite small, as I remembered it with a pinch of jealousy startling as a twinge from an old wound.
She knew that this was not quite fair, and the look that it brought to his facea twinge of pain like neuralgiaawakened a sharp compunction in her.
It is true that the Mate and the Second Engineer fox-trotted twice round the deck and into the galley, where they upset a ship's tin of gravy; and the story that the Trimmer, his complexion liberally enriched with oil and coaldust, embraced the Lieutenant and excitedly hailed the Skipper by his privy pseudonym of "Plum-face," cannot be lightly discredited; but at the same time I think each one of us felt a certain twinge of regret.
Their faces gave him a twinge at the heart.
They lived above the foulest drains, they breathed the closest air, They had their yearly twinge of gout, but little seemed to care.
" Her words caused me a twinge of anguish, for I am afraid of everything, even presentiments, and am ready to see in every word a forecast of evil.
AT HIS SATURDAY EVENING POST, a twinge of memory by Paul Gerard Smith.
I felt a little twinge of conscience at the fib, but I had too much at stake to hesitate over a quibble.
Of course I can never like Nettie as I have liked you, and I feel a twinge every time I remember the dear old times.
Frank generally had some love affair in handit was a part of his nature; and as he was not always careful in his choice, the mother had occasionally felt a twinge of fear lest, after all her care, some terrible mésalliance should be thrust upon her by her susceptible son.
Pastors, Sunday-school teachers, housekeepersbusy people that you arehave you ever felt the twinge of unrest, almost discouragement, because some friendly letter, which you enjoyed receiving, lay unanswered waiting a spare hour?
The mate had still got the toothache, and was at that moment in all the agonies of a phenomenal twinge.
Not a gesture, nor a twinge of the features, nor an accent to indicate emotion of any kind.
Thus Captaine Bessus, thus; thus twinge your nose, thus kicke you, and thus tread you.
It cost her a twinge of pain, but only by standing upright on the bed's edge could she reach the gas-bracket to turn the flame higher.
On the copper lid formerly lay that sword, until the great Napoleon when he stood there, feeling a twinge of jealousy perhaps over the dead leader's fame, carried it away with him.
It was only a twinge.